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Lemmy Kilmister reviewed Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album in 2011 – this is what he said
One late metal legend looks back on the masterwork that launched the solo career of another late metal legend
Watch Opeth pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with heartfelt cover of Black Sabbath’s Solitude
The prog metal mavens offered an excellent tribute to the Prince Of Darkness at a festival last weekend
Metallica producer Bob Rock looks back on controversial Load and Reload albums
Rock is “glad” he and Metallica didn’t imitate the metal stars’ blockbuster Black Album when making its divisive follow-ups
Hatebreed enlisted a Spider-Man director for a music video, then got banned from MTV
Jamey Jasta says he had to “infiltrate the system” for the hardcore band’s song I Will Be Heard to make the airwaves
I never listened to Black Sabbath growing up – this is why I got an Ozzy Osbourne tattoo the day after he died
It took a while for me to appreciate the Prince Of Darkness’ true influence on heavy metal, but after his death, I needed something to reflect how big a part of me he’d become
Trivium to release long-awaited new song in early August
Guitarist Corey Beaulieu says the track has the “spirit” of the band’s 2005 breakthrough album, Ascendancy
Google ‘Ozzy Osbourne’. You won’t regret it.
The search engine has included a touching tribute to the Prince Of Darkness for those who look up his name
Jason Momoa looks back on moshing at Black Sabbath’s final show
The Aquaman and Game Of Thrones star, who emceed at Back To The Beginning, couldn’t help but join the melee at one point in the day
A timeline of Ozzy Osbourne’s greatest film, TV and videogame cameos
From screaming “boobs!” at a TV in Austin Powers to spilling orange juice during The Decline Of Western Civilization, these are the Prince Of Darkness’ greatest pop-culture moments
Bruce Dickinson and Ozzy Osbourne once planned to steal a taxi together
Watch Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson reflect on a drunken night where he ordered 50 beers then plotted grand theft auto with the Prince Of Darkness
Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth remembers legendary tour with Emperor
Cradle’s 1993 shows with Emperor have entered black metal folklore – but very few people actually showed up to see them
Ozzy Osbourne’s chaotic cameo on Late Night With Conan O’Brien is the funniest Prince Of Darkness moment nobody talks about
Over the course of a six-minute skit, Osbourne forgets the lyrics to Crazy Train, calls Barry Manilow “the antichrist” and unintentionally strangles a guy
Watch Machine Head pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne by adding War Pigs and Children Of The Grave to their setlist at the very last minute
The US groove metal veterans learned about Osbourne’s death mere minutes before taking the stage in Austria on Tuesday
Dave Mustaine wanted Megadeth to re-record songs from Metallica’s No Life ’Til Leather demo, ex-bassist David Ellefson claims
Mustaine has songwriting credits on four of the songs on Metallica’s now-legendary demo
Petition launched to rename Birmingham airport after Ozzy Osbourne
The heavy metal icon, who grew up in Birmingham, died of undisclosed causes this week at the age of 76
Watch Ghost bewitch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a performance of Lachryma
Tobias Forge’s devil church returned to late-night TV in particularly thunderous form on Wednesday
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal pioneer, has died at the age of 76
The iconic ‘Prince Of Darkness’ has passed away from undisclosed causes, his family confirm in a statement
Ghost’s Tobias Forge says Sleep Token, Måneskin and Greta Van Fleet prove rock isn’t dead
Forge takes issue with Kiss man Gene Simmons’ infamous “rock is dead” stance during a new interview
This heavy metal veteran told indie chart-toppers Snow Patrol that they’d never be successful
Paradise Lost singer Nick Holmes once told future indie sensations Snow Patrol, to their faces, that they’d never hit the big time
Who do we contact about putting this photo of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler with the Backstreet Boys up in the National Portrait Gallery?
The fact that we didn’t hear Backstreet’s Back at Back To The Beginning is a crime, really
This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect
Daron Malakian admits System Of A Down’s hiatus was “difficult”
The guitarist/vocalist reveals he struggled when the nu metal-era juggernauts went their separate ways in 2006
Endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, Mawiza have just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums
Chilean groove metallers Mawiza explore their indigenous Mapuche Nation culture on colossal debut Ül
